Spectacle moved to KDE Graphics, future of KSnapshot?

Boudhayan Gupta bgupta at kde.org
Sat Sep 26 10:05:25 BST 2015


On 26 September 2015 at 06:55, Eike Hein <hein at kde.org> wrote:
> I'm more concerned about the migration path from KSnapshot
> to Spectacle. Can we make a hard decision to abandon
> KSnapshot on X11

+1

> and have Spectacle install a ksnapshot
> symlink for a grace period?

-1

The problem here is that ksnapshot has different command line options,
a whole different program (kbackgroundsnapshot) for background
shooting, and a DBus publicly documented DBus interface that doesn't
map at all to Spectacle's internals.

-- BG




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